Hellion - A Demonic Love Story

It’s been a while since I celebrated a release day. I’m a bit rusty. And this is an emotional release. Not as emotional as the next one will be, but emotional nonetheless.

Hellion was initially going to be bundled in a multi-author release. Since 2015 ended up being a clusterfuck, I was relieved when the project was abandoned. While I felt I had found my stride with Sera and Colin, my leads, my father’s illness made any time away from work sparse, and I was often too exhausted to devote any time to writing.

Then one day, after my father’s health had seemingly been on the mend, I opened my outline for Hellion and remembered how excited I’d been for it. So I began writing, and I quickly re-fell in love with the characters.

The road to release was still a long one. I completed Hellion in late September/early October, right around the time my father’s cancer came back swinging. I sent it to my betas, received their comments and insight, started to rework it, but I was devoted then to my father’s health needs. In November, I decided to tackle NaNoWriMo because, hey, everyone needs to torture themselves at some point. By the time November ended, I had just around 20k left to write on Deliverance from Sin, and my dad’s health was worse than ever.

On January 2nd, he died.

Eventually, I started working on Deliverance from Sin again. Once I had momentum, I couldn’t stop working on it. So I worked until it was done.

So then I had two completed novels. One to go to my editor at Totally Bound Publishing, and the other to be self-published.